Dispensing apparatus for automobile service



I. H. HECKER. DISPENSING APPARATUS FOR AUTOMOBILE SERVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-2, 1920.

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I "III JNVENTO ATTORNEY.

J. H. HECKER. DISPENSING APPARATUS FOR AUTOMOBILE SERVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2,1920. 1,8?9,562 atented; May 24,1921.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2v INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

NITED STATES PATENT FQCE.

JOHN HENRY BECKER, OF COVINGTON, OHIO.

DISPENSING APPARATUS FOR AUTOMOBILE SERVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 24, 11921.

Application filed September a, 1920. Serial No. 407,717.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN HENRY HEOKER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at dispensing equipment operated independ ently at various distances from an-automo bile for supplying such necessities as air, water and electric light. 1 1

The object of the invention is to provide a service stand for dispensing water, air, etc., for automobiles and having such construction and arrangementof parts as to aiford independent assembly 'of a plurality of casings and to provide each casing with an independent. loose gravity pulley or sheave for retracting extensible conveyer pipes and an electric light wire.

1%. further object of'the invention is to provide special pipe connections between the extensible pipes or hose and their supply pipes,'and to furnish a pulley or sheave of Special construction without retracting springs and separate weights, and having free vertical movement for permitting extension of the hose and the retraction thereof in a dispensing operation.

Various other objects, advantages and improved results are attainable in the production and practical utility of the, invention, as will be hereinafter fully disclosed.

Inthe accompanying drawings forming partof this application Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the service elements retracted and in position to be withdrawn for application to an auto-- mobile. y Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on the dottedline 22 Fig. 3.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken on the dotted line 3-3 Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a cross section taken on the dotted line 4-4 Fig. 3. 7

Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view of one of the gravity sheaves.

The same reference characters denote the same parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In carrying out minvention I em 10 a suitable base as. 1, hazing sub-base elev eiti ns 2, and a blndlng cap or cover 3 having similar pro e ct1ons 4. v The cap or cover 3 has an electrlc light fixture 5 provided with a globe 6. The elevations 2 and the projections 4 are 'locatedopposite each other in the same vertlcal plane, so that the said members 2 and 4 form three pair of holding devices fitting within the casings, hereinafter partlcularly referred to.

The casings as 7, 8 and 9 are of the sameconstruction, being formed of thin metal the slde edges of which are bent into corner folds 10 forming vertical braces, and the front of each casing is provided with a hood 11 overhanging an opening or mouth 12, said hoods being preferably struck out of the sheet metal forming the casings. The

top and the bottom of the casings fit over the base members 4 and the cap members 2,

' respectively, and are secured thereto by suitable screws 13. The casings 7 8 and 9 have sheaves or pulleys as 14, journaled in the upper portion thereof and opposite the mouth 12 by means of a shaft '15, and these sheaves or pulleys will be hereinafter referred to'as the shaft sheaves. The shaft 15 is arranged to be withdrawn for removing and remounting one or more of these sheaves as desired or as occasion may demand, and forms an expeditious means for assembling these parts. Each casing'is'also provided with a loose gravity sheave 16, hereinafter to be more particularly described. A water supply pipe 17 extends through the base 1 and projects upwardly into the casing 7 and is provided with a coupling. 18 having a suitable hand valve 19 upon the outside of this casing. A water tube 20 extends upwardly from the coupling 18 and has a depending discharge end 21 to which one end of a water hose 22 is attached. The hose 22 extends under the loose sheave 16, over the shaft sheave 14 of this casing and through the mouth "12, and the free end of the hose 22-has coupled thereto a curved discharge pipe 23. A similar arrangement is made for supplying air through the casing 8, by an air supply pipe 24 having a hose 25 extending under the sheave 16, and over the shaft sheave and. connected with said pipe and with a hand valve 26 by a coupling 27 A pressure gage 8 is connected with the air pipe 24'. The free end of this hose extends through the mouth of the casing 8 and is provided with a coupling 28. The electric vided with an electric lamp- 33 having the usual guard or cage 34$ This lamp may be withdrawn to a distance and to various positions for inspecting and repairing an automobile and when released it is retracted by its gravity sheave to its place for future use.

Referring to the loose or gravity sheave, as particularly shown in Fig. 5 ofthe drawings, the shell members 35 are-- rovidedwith disk weights 36 secured toget er by means of bolts 37 and forming a central bearing of solid metal body for the hose and cablehereinbefore mentioned. Obviously these weights are suflicient to overcome the weight of the hose and cable and their attachments when the base and cable are released, after having. been withdrawn; and the gravity sheaves will retract the hose and. cable to the positions as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawthese sheaves rise and fall centrally under the shaft sheaves, that by reason of the relation of the sheaves to the casings the hose and cable are prevented from wedging other gravity'sheaves, and that the between the sheaves and the side walls of the casing, that the annular flange of all the sheaves are in such close proximity to the' rear wall of the casings as to prevent dislodgment of the hose and cable ,from the sheaves, and that the hoods not only formv a cover for the mouth of the casings but form an overhanging roof for the valves and the electric button.

Obviously'the gravity sheaves being independently loose, one is *free to move vertically during its revoluble movement of the 1gravity sheaves maybe afforded a greater eld of verticalmovement by increasing the height of the casings and thereby afford the use of longer hose and cable; a

I-do not wish to be understood as confining the invention to material, size and shape nor to the number of cells or casings, as these may be increased in number for certain other service supply elements, but reserve the right to make such changes and variations in the manufacture and practical application of the invention as may not be inconsistent with the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a dispensing apparatus of the character described, a plurality of separate casings, a base'and cover common to all of the casings and permitting independent removal and replacing of the casings, a shaft extendin through the casings, a sheave in each caslng and mounted on the shaft, a gravity sheave loosely contained in each casing, said gravity sheaves having independent vertical movement with respect to each other and with respect to said shaft sheaves, a dispensing conveyer for 'each cas ing and working under the gravity sheaves and over the shaft sheaves for extension and retraction, and controlling means upon the .outside of the casings to which said conscribed, a plurality of independent casings having open ends, a cap having projections 9.5 fitting and closing one end of each of the. casings, a base having elevations corresponding with said projections and] fitting and closing theother end of each of the casings, said casings being. separately mounted in vertical parallel position, and means for securing the casings to the cap and to the base.

3. In an apparatus of the character described, a plurality of assembled separated casings, a binding cap and ,a base for the casings, a shaft extending through the easings, sheaves revoluble in the casings on the shaft, gravity sheaves loose within the easings, and dispensing conductors connected ,with a source of supply through said base and having the gravity sheaves riding thereon, all of said sheaves fitting the casupper end of the casings and forming a cover, a base having elevations closing the bottom of the casings, a source of supply 120 pipe extending through the base and proecting therefrom'vertically into certain of the casings, a coupling having a valve stem extending through the front of'said certain casings, dispensing pipes extending vertically from said couplings, dispensing hose attached to said dispensing pipes, sheaves journaled in said casings, and gravity sheaves adapted to ride loosely on the hose holding the casings spaced apart in vertical and to be guided in vertical movement by parallel position. 10 the inner face of the casings. In Witness whereof I hereunto set my 5. Inan apparatus of the character dehand in the presence of two Witnesses.

5 scribed, a plurality of independent casings, JOHN HENRY HECKER.

a removablecap covering all the casings, a Witnesses: base common to all the casings, and cap and MARTHA FULKER,

base members fitting Within the casings for CHARLES E. KooN. 

